Technical Advisor - External Approvals
- Permanent opportunity to kickstart your career – $112,195 + Super + Benefits
- We have an option to work in either Perth or Karratha offices
- Join our Operations Planning & Support team (Operations Services)
Water Corporation is recognised globally for our performance and innovation to secure water supplies for Western Australia in a changing climate. We’re driven to manage water services sustainably to make WA a great place to live and invest, and we have career opportunities to help make it happen. A role at Water Corporation can unlock the door to ongoing long term career development opportunities; we also support training and development, flexible work arrangements, health and lifestyle programs and generous company benefits. If you share our commitment to WA then consider Water Corporation as the next step in your career.
We have a permanent opportunity for a Technical Advisor – External Approvals to lead, review and enable the delivery of our projects in the Minor Works Program (Regional, state-wide). Your focus will be to:
- Provide environmental and external approvals advice, guidance, and support to the region across monitoring, investigation, approvals, compliance, and contract management.
- Tools such as ArcGIS and Agol are used regularly to review project sites and surrounds, considering potential environmental and external approval impacts.
- Influence the development and approvals across the minor works Program, you will build and drive positive and collaborative relationships with key internal stakeholders, service providers and customers. These teams include Aboriginal Heritage, Environmental Business Unit, Native Title and Procurement and Property.
- Influence and develop process improvements for External Approval assessments, where you can bring new efficiencies on how we achieve our external approval process.
- Manage the environmental management system and all reporting associated with environmental obligations
The successful incumbent will be proactive, with the ability to prioritise workloads and be able to multi-task with a solution focused mindset.
What’s in it for you?
This is a great development opportunity to work with our project leaders and gain experience in Water Corporation assets and project delivery for minor works. You will have opportunity to visit sites, working with key stakeholders and customers. This position will provide exposure to aboriginal affairs and heritages.
If you are based in Karratha, we will offer the following:
- Air-conditioning subsidy of up to $2,572
- Remote location allowance from $12,865 (single rate)
- Employees in the Northwest region have the opportunity to work 1 hour of overtime each day at the applicable overtime rate
- We offer annual leave travel concessions. This is where you are entitled to claim additional annual leave travel days to compensate for additional travel time associated when travelling to holiday destinations from the Northwest Region
- Additional 38 hours annual leave per year in addition to the standard entitlement. That’s 5 weeks’ worth of annual leave per year
- Housing allowance may be negotiable
Whether you’re Perth based, or Karratha based, we offer these benefits
- Want to have some working from home days? Not a problem. We offer flexible work options
- Annual leave loading of 17.5%
- A company that advocates for mental health and wellbeing. We offer 2 paid Well-being Leave days per 12 months of service for time off. No questions asked, we understand the importance of switching off and recharging every now and then
- After 3 years of continuous service, you may access your Long Service leave pro-rata
- In addition to the base requirement, Water Corporation will make an additional 2% super contribution when you elect to salary sacrifice 2% of your salary to super
- Considering creating or growing a family? Our paid parental leave for primary caregiver is 18 weeks, and non-primary 3 weeks. Employees will accrue long service leave while on paid parental leave
Job sounds exciting but what about the team?
You will feel very well supported by your manager and colleagues. Your manager is solutions and strategy focussed and demonstrates big picture future thinking. She will enable you to do your job, facilitate and advocate on your behalf particularly in the space of process improvement. As for your team, we are statewide based across our country regions. We have a diverse team from all walks of life and experience. You will have good relationship building skills and be able to engage, consult and communicate very well with your teammates, with most sitting outside your immediate place of work.
The fundamentals of this role
- Develop and maintain a strategic outlook for the external approval process for our Minor Works Program, working closely with our internal stakeholders and customers
- Facilitate and enable the External Approvals Process for projects in the regional minor projects program, to ensure the timely delivery of our Projects
- Provide advice on external approvals issues and compliance
- Provide expertise, as required by Project Managers, in discussions with regulatory agencies to facilitate regulatory approvals
- Identify, influence and co-ordinate strategic or grouped submissions with a view to support the efficient delivery of the program (e.g., bundling approvals for like-for-like projects)
- Facilitate and enable the External Approvals Process for projects in the regional minor projects program
Ideally, you will have
A degree level qualification in an Environmental or related discipline, along with considerable experience providing end to end external approvals support to operating and/or capital projects in a large organisation. ArcGIS experience desirable.
Apply: If you are interested in the above opportunity, please submit a covering letter and resume that best demonstrates your ability to meet the requirements of the role.
As part of the recruitment process you may be required to complete pre-employment screening which may include a medical, qualification check, police clearance and Australian working rights check.
Applications close Sunday 29th September 2024
Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace
Diversity and inclusion are more than words. They guide us on building a thriving workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and our community.
We encourage applications from every background, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, women, youth, LGBTQIA+ folks and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Applicants with disability who require adjustments, or alternative methods of communication in the recruitment process, can contact a Recruitment Officer recruitment@watercorporation.com.au or 9420 2000. To read our diversity and inclusion statement, please visit our website
- Permanent opportunity to kickstart your career – $112,195 + Super + Benefits
- We have an option to work in either Perth or Karratha offices
- Join our Operations Planning & Support team (Operations Services)
Water Corporation is recognised globally for our performance and innovation to secure water supplies for Western Australia in a changing climate. We’re driven to manage water services sustainably to make WA a great place to live and invest, and we have career opportunities to help make it happen. A role at Water Corporation can unlock the door to ongoing long term career development opportunities; we also support training and development, flexible work arrangements, health and lifestyle programs and generous company benefits. If you share our commitment to WA then consider Water Corporation as the next step in your career.
We have a permanent opportunity for a Technical Advisor – External Approvals to lead, review and enable the delivery of our projects in the Minor Works Program (Regional, state-wide). Your focus will be to:
- Provide environmental and external approvals advice, guidance, and support to the region across monitoring, investigation, approvals, compliance, and contract management.
- Tools such as ArcGIS and Agol are used regularly to review project sites and surrounds, considering potential environmental and external approval impacts.
- Influence the development and approvals across the minor works Program, you will build and drive positive and collaborative relationships with key internal stakeholders, service providers and customers. These teams include Aboriginal Heritage, Environmental Business Unit, Native Title and Procurement and Property.
- Influence and develop process improvements for External Approval assessments, where you can bring new efficiencies on how we achieve our external approval process.
- Manage the environmental management system and all reporting associated with environmental obligations
The successful incumbent will be proactive, with the ability to prioritise workloads and be able to multi-task with a solution focused mindset.
What’s in it for you?
This is a great development opportunity to work with our project leaders and gain experience in Water Corporation assets and project delivery for minor works. You will have opportunity to visit sites, working with key stakeholders and customers. This position will provide exposure to aboriginal affairs and heritages.
If you are based in Karratha, we will offer the following:
- Air-conditioning subsidy of up to $2,572
- Remote location allowance from $12,865 (single rate)
- Employees in the Northwest region have the opportunity to work 1 hour of overtime each day at the applicable overtime rate
- We offer annual leave travel concessions. This is where you are entitled to claim additional annual leave travel days to compensate for additional travel time associated when travelling to holiday destinations from the Northwest Region
- Additional 38 hours annual leave per year in addition to the standard entitlement. That’s 5 weeks’ worth of annual leave per year
- Housing allowance may be negotiable
Whether you’re Perth based, or Karratha based, we offer these benefits
- Want to have some working from home days? Not a problem. We offer flexible work options
- Annual leave loading of 17.5%
- A company that advocates for mental health and wellbeing. We offer 2 paid Well-being Leave days per 12 months of service for time off. No questions asked, we understand the importance of switching off and recharging every now and then
- After 3 years of continuous service, you may access your Long Service leave pro-rata
- In addition to the base requirement, Water Corporation will make an additional 2% super contribution when you elect to salary sacrifice 2% of your salary to super
- Considering creating or growing a family? Our paid parental leave for primary caregiver is 18 weeks, and non-primary 3 weeks. Employees will accrue long service leave while on paid parental leave
Job sounds exciting but what about the team?
You will feel very well supported by your manager and colleagues. Your manager is solutions and strategy focussed and demonstrates big picture future thinking. She will enable you to do your job, facilitate and advocate on your behalf particularly in the space of process improvement. As for your team, we are statewide based across our country regions. We have a diverse team from all walks of life and experience. You will have good relationship building skills and be able to engage, consult and communicate very well with your teammates, with most sitting outside your immediate place of work.
The fundamentals of this role
- Develop and maintain a strategic outlook for the external approval process for our Minor Works Program, working closely with our internal stakeholders and customers
- Facilitate and enable the External Approvals Process for projects in the regional minor projects program, to ensure the timely delivery of our Projects
- Provide advice on external approvals issues and compliance
- Provide expertise, as required by Project Managers, in discussions with regulatory agencies to facilitate regulatory approvals
- Identify, influence and co-ordinate strategic or grouped submissions with a view to support the efficient delivery of the program (e.g., bundling approvals for like-for-like projects)
- Facilitate and enable the External Approvals Process for projects in the regional minor projects program
Ideally, you will have
A degree level qualification in an Environmental or related discipline, along with considerable experience providing end to end external approvals support to operating and/or capital projects in a large organisation. ArcGIS experience desirable.
Apply: If you are interested in the above opportunity, please submit a covering letter and resume that best demonstrates your ability to meet the requirements of the role.
As part of the recruitment process you may be required to complete pre-employment screening which may include a medical, qualification check, police clearance and Australian working rights check.
Applications close Sunday 29th September 2024
Our commitment to a diverse and inclusive workplace
Diversity and inclusion are more than words. They guide us on building a thriving workforce that reflects the diversity of our customers and our community.
We encourage applications from every background, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, women, youth, LGBTQIA+ folks and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Applicants with disability who require adjustments, or alternative methods of communication in the recruitment process, can contact a Recruitment Officer recruitment@watercorporation.com.au or 9420 2000. To read our diversity and inclusion statement, please visit our website
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